Top ten advertising networks to make money from your blog online.

In the last article we discussed the how to earn money from your blog. In this article we will review the top ten advertising networks to make money online from your blog; along with their advantages and disadvantages.

Adsense:

Only two are enough to describe this program:simple and unbeatable! Yes this advertising network has changed the nature and culture of online advertising. Simple, clean, relevant and efficient adds are the most important features of Adsense. Adsense does not allow you to cheat your users. It simply implies let the users choose what they want! It puts label 'sponsored links' wherever you are placing adds so the users will be aware those are paid links and 99.99% of times those links will be relevant so users will not feel they are cheated or misled. It is the first choice of every blogger or website owner. For Google, it is the most of important product since Google makes most of it's money through Adsense. Here are some advantages and disadvantages of Adsense: Advantages of using Adsense:
1. The most trusted and most reputed program in online advertising category.
2. Highest rates for publisher. Actually Adsense shares 68% percent with publisher for content and 51% for search.
3. Most relevant and efficient adds.
4. Very detailed reports of everything that is happening on your blog or website.
5. Very good support after Adsense approval.
Disadvantages of using Adsense:
1. It is best in this category but it is the most difficult to get Adsense approval.
2. If they found your being involved in something fishing then will disprove your account without any warning and no support except 'You have violated our terms and conditions' will be provided.
3. Once banned means you can not use Adsense for lifetime but they will use this step at last point.
4. Very strict about their rules and policies.
5. You can not click your own adds by mistake also! You will be banned!

Infolinks:

Infolinks is another best in category which has different concept of advertising and can be used comfortably to increase the earning from your blog. Infolinks will scan your content from a article and discovers some keywords and it will make those keywords different in appearance from rest. So whenever user visits your blogs he/she may likely move their pointer and when the pointer counters those identified keywords it will display adds in small square box. Another ways used by infolinks are placing some aggregated keywords in some specified place in your blog or inframe, infold etc. This is best option to combine to increase your online earning through blog. Advantages of using Infolinks:
1. Very easy and instance approval.
2. Completely different concept from mainstream advertising networks.
3. Adds served are mostly relevant.
4. On time payment and trusted.
5. Very simple integration techniques. You integrate infolinks with blogger, wordpress, drupal and other CMS with one click only.
6. Provides detailed reports and adds are not annoying.
Disadvantages of using Infolinks:
1. Sometimes irrelevant adds may be served.
2. You really need millions of page impressions to earn handsome income.
3. May slower the loading of your blog.
4. Very less CPCs and CPMs.

Chitika:

Chitika is again alternative to Adsense. It has been trying to prove their since long time but they still much behind than Adsense or infolinks or kontera. Chitika provides many types of adds to publish on your blog but they have less number of advertisers so very narrow range of adds they can provide. But thing is that if you are not still approved by Adsense and you don't want to waste your time then Chitika can be very helpful. Chitika approves publisher sites instantly and you can start placing adds from the moment you open an account with them. Advantages of using Chitika:
1. Easy and instant approval.
2. Pop up adds if you like but your users may hate them.
3. Detailed reports for every block of add your placing on your website.
4. Good support.
5. Mostly they won't ban their publishers.
Disadvantages of using Chitika:
1. Irrelevant adds.
2. Pop adds may be annoying.
3. Less number of advertisers and narrow range of advertisement.


Bidvertiser:

Bidvertiser is another good tool to monetize your blog or website. It has hassel free approval and less restrictive rules and regulations for their publishers.It has good number of advertisers and publisher over the world so it can provide you with wide range of adds to be served on your blog. It can also be used as Adsense alternative if you have some problem in getting approval from Adsense. Advantages of using Bidvertiser:
1. Large no of advertisers and wide range of advertisements.
2. High PPC (Pay per click).
3. Much less payouts. You require to earn $10 to payout.
4. Simple and easy to use UI.
5. Generates efficient and detailed reports about performance of your adds.
Disadvantages of using Bidvertiser:
1. They are not CPM, means they will only pay you someone click on your adds.
2. Sometimes problem in add serving.
3. Irrelevant adds may be served though rarely!

Kontera:

Kontera is advertising network which is much like infolinks! It takes the concept of 'intext' adds to serve you adds based on identified keywords.Kontera is not much efficient network in my opinion and they don't provide you with very good reports about performance of your adds. It is also difficult to your total income at any point of time and for this simple task you need to raise a support ticket and keep waiting for their reply. But good thing is that they answer your support withing 24 hours most of the times. Advantages of using Kontera:
1. Simple and easy to get approval.
2. Easy integration almost all the blogging platforms like Wordpress and blogger and CMS like drupal etc.
3. Very good support.
Disadvantages of using Kontera:
1. They do not provide you complete reports and you have to generate them. Still you need to raise to know your total earning.
2. You really need to have millions and billions of page views to earn money from them.
3. CPC is also very less.
4. Pop adds may be annoying.

Clicksor:

Clicksor is advertising network which both annoying and efficient and times.It can prove the best alternative to Adsense sometimes because due to nature somewhat aggressive advertisements it can prove to be best alternative advertising network for your blog to get some handsome income. Clicksor pays you 85% of revenue share that can be highest in online advertising category and helps you to boost your online income rapidly. Advantages of using Clicksor:
1. Aggressive advertising than its competitors.
2. Simple and detailed reports
3. Reports will be sent to your email per week or per month or even per day depending upon your subscription.
4. Many types of advertisements like pop up adds, in-page adds etc.
5. Easy approval process and easy to integrate.
Disadvantages of using Clicksor
1. Some users may feel these adds annoying.
2. Irrelevant adds served often.
3. Mostly useful for forums and entertainment sites due their nature of adds.

Adhitz:

Adhitz is another good Adsense alternative and is in market for quite long time. Adhitz provides you many ways to monetize your site with different size of adds and banners. It's clickthrough is also good. Using adhitz you can also sell your space for advertisements.It has proved itself by providing wide range of advertisements with large number of advertisers using their network. Advantages of using Adhitz:
1. Again it is very easy to get approval. Less restrictive rules for approval.
2. You can create customized reports.
3. Less payouts compared to its competitors. You have to earn 25$ for payout.
4. You can set your own price for displaying advertisements.
5. Easy integration of adds with generated HTML code.
Disadvantages of using Adhitz:
1. Can not provide wide range of advertisements.
2. Need good amount traffic to earn good money.

Media.net Adds:

Media.net is advertising network from biggies in the internet technology:Bing and Yahoo. They tried their best to provide alternative to Adsense but they are much behind! But it is also true they can be good alternative for Adsense. Again their approval process is difficult and you will get easy approval if you are from UK or US. Most of the advertisements are served through the US and UK advertisers so it is not that suitable for bloggers or website owners in other countries. Advantages of using Media.net Adds:
1. Good CPC and CPM rates.
2. Wide range of advertiser from UK and US.
3. Payments are on time and can be trusted.
Disadvantages of using Media.net Adds:
1. As mentioned earlier they do not have advertisers across the world.
2. Mainly serves add relevant to specific countries like US, UK and Canada.
3. Approval process is strict.

Revenue Hits:

RevenueHits can prove to be good alternative to the Adsense and it is newcomer in the online advertising category. Revenuehits is product of company based in Israel and started in the year 2008. But since it's starting days has proved to be good adsense alternative and provided ways to monetize blog or website around the world. Along with website or blog monetizing; revenuehits provides ways to monetize toolbars, widgets, search, IM application for developers around the world. Some of advantages and disadvantages of using revenue its are: Advantages of using RevenueHits:
1. Provide more ways and tools to for monetization.
2. Provides all kinds of adds such as slider adds, pop up adds and banner adds.
3. Easy and hassel free approval process.
4. Good customer support.
Disadvantages of using RevenueHits:
1. Pop and slider adds can be annoying. Sometimes users may click on such adds by mistake and directed to other web pages.
2. Aggressive than it's competitors so annoying again.

Affinity Adds:

Affinity adds has been in the online advertising business since quiet a long time time and they have been successful in building their own network of publishers and advertisers. It is the product of Chicago based company. Affinity adds has enough number of advertisers throughout the world so they can provide you with wide range of adds to serve. Affinity adds also provides wide range of services and tools for both publishers and advertisers. Advantages of using Affinity Adds:
1. Easy approval. Less restrictive rules.
2. Detailed reports and analysis.
3. Easy to use user interface.
4. Special advertisement for mobile and tablets.
Disadvantages of using Affinity Adds:
1. Sometimes difficult to find adds due to lot of customizations for publishers and advertisements.
2. You may experience irrelevant and annoying add units.
3. Only PPC network which you will get paid only if user clicks on add. It doe not support the CPM which is the way to count add impressions and publishers will get paid for this.

These are reviews of advertising networks which I have mentioned in my last article top five ways to earn money from your blog. There are really lot of such networks available today. Also you can combine two or at most three of them if you want to earn more money but always keep in mind that your adds are not annoying the users after all if users are not satisfied then everything is vain. In next article we will review top ten affiliate marketing networks for Indian blogger or website owners.